Everyone loves a puffin. Scientists are stumped about their beaks

Cute beak, but what’s it for? Tourists can’t get enough of puffins, but scientists still debate why they have that crazy schnoz MARCUS GEE ST. JOHN'S, NFLD. THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO An Atlantic puffin swoops low over the ocean at the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, near St. John's Newfoundland. GREG LOCKE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL COMMENTS SHARE SAVE FOR LATER If you browse the tourist traps on Water Street, the historic main drag of St. John’s, you can’t avoid the puffins. Puffins on coffee cups, aprons and shot glasses; puffins on postcards, calendars, beer coasters and stickers; …